Correspondence to: J R McMillan Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH, UK; jm439cam.ac.uk NICE, the draft fertility guideline ...

In 2024, new legislation introduced significant changes to the rules, procedures and institutions governing research ethics ...

Correspondence to Dr Carlos Gómez-Vírseda, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium; carlos.gomezvirseda{at}kuleuven.be ...

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Annoni’s critique of Personalized Patient Preference Predictors (P4) highlights a fundamental flaw in their current design: ...

1 The Centre for Bioethics at Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University, Sweden 2 The Division of Paediatrics at the Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Linköping University, Sweden 3 ...

2 Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Ethicists often struggle to maintain institution-wide awareness of and commitment to medical ethics. At Beth Israel Deaconess ...

The principle of respect for autonomy has shaped much of the bioethics' discourse over the last 50 years, and is now most commonly used in the meaning of respecting autonomous choice. This is probably ...

Background Decisions about withdrawal of life support for infants have given rise to legal battles between physicians and parents creating intense media attention. It is unclear how we should evaluate ...

Fetal pain has long been a contentious issue, in large part because fetal pain is often cited as a reason to restrict access to termination of pregnancy or abortion. We have divergent views regarding ...

Medicine is not merely a job that requires technical expertise, but a profession concerned with making the best decisions and recommendations with reference to, and in consultation with, the patient.